The short story that we focused on this week in class was The Lottery by Shirley Jackson. In this story, it explains an annual community wide tradition where every citizen collect rocks and come together in the city square. The irony of the the title, The Lottery, comes alive when the tradition of selecting a name out of a black box results in some person being selected to be stoned to death rather than winning money or a raffle. This is ironic based on the fact when people hear the phrase “The Lottery” you automatically start thinking of people buying tickets to enter into a state or nation wide raffle where they have the chance of winning an enormous amount of money. Even though this is the exact opposite of what occurs in the story we read;
